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/ 18 January 2006
A woman arrested for abandoning her newborn baby near the Hennenman railway station would remain in custody until her next court appearance at the end of the month, Free State police said on Wednesday. She appeared briefly in the Hennenman Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for child neglect and would appear again on January 30, Captain Stephen Thakeng said.
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/ 18 January 2006
Web users searching for South Africa’s newest search engine, Jonga, on Google are more likely to find an Indian army 4×4 vehicle, a South African tour company or the genealogy of a German whose name is "Jonga". That is, if they find it at all. The search engine was dropped from the Google index last week, according to Jonga’s owner.
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/ 18 January 2006
British police were keeping tight-lipped on Wednesday over an alleged plot by fathers’ rights extremists to kidnap Prime Minister Tony Blair’s five-year-old son, Leo. The plan, apparently in its early stages, was revealed by The Sun newspaper and confirmed by police sources to the BBC.
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/ 18 January 2006
Colonel Edward Hall, who as director of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile programme helped develop America’s solid-fuel rocket technology, putting the United States decades ahead of other superpowers, has died. He was 91. Hall died on Sunday at Torrance Memorial Medical Centre, said his daughter, Sheila Hall. The cause of death was not immediately known.
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/ 18 January 2006
The tripartite alliance of the ruling African National Congress, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party in the North West is in tatters ahead of the municipal elections, Cosatu said on Wednesday. The SACP and Cosatu were ”marginalised from the alliance processes of drawing up candidate lists”.
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/ 18 January 2006
An Eastern Cape high school is to add fishing to its formal syllabus this year, the Dispatch reported on its website on Wednesday. John Amoah, principal of Inkwenkwezi High School in NU6 in Mdanstane, said he was offered a donation of 100 fishing rods in December, and at first he had no idea what to do with the rods.
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/ 18 January 2006
Charges of misconduct could be brought against 23 Eastern Cape school principals for inflating their pupil numbers, a Department of Education spokesperson said on Wednesday. ”This has been an ongoing problem in our province,” said Loyiso Pulumani.
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/ 18 January 2006
American scientist Stuart Poss has discovered a new species of fish — in a bottle at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity in Grahamstown, IOL reported on Wednesday. The waspfish, a relative of the venomous stonefish and scorpionfish, was found in 1994 off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 18 January 2006
Police and navy divers were still combing an area off Cape Point on Wednesday afternoon for the body of a trainee pilot who plunged to his death in a helicopter crash. The man was flying alone at about 10.30am on Tuesday when witnesses saw his Robinson R22 helicopter crash into the sea.
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/ 18 January 2006
Supporters of Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo maintained barricades in many areas of Abidjan on Wednesday, bringing the West African country’s main city to a halt for the third straight day. In France, the growing crisis prompted the chief of army staff to call for sanctions to be imposed.